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Feasibility study for intermodal logistics centre announced

2011.08.18.

CBS Property has announced its plans to develop a new intermodal ligistics centre near the junction of M6 motorway and main road no. 6., close to the river Danube, the M0 motorway and railway lines www.cbsproperty.hu/en/property/details/6/. As a true intermodal location the site is well integrated into the south-western industrial and logistics area of Nagytétény, a part of the 22nd District of Budapest. The site comprises some 72 hectares, of which 44 ha is suitable for logistics development. Of this development area 24 ha is located in District 22 and some 20 ha in neighbouring Érd.

The road, rail, river and air transport networks and hubs of Hungary are located in the centre of European transit corridors. The location advantages can only be realized if part of the transit volume of goods is processed in intermodal and multifunctional logistics centres located at major transport hubs, thus creating added value for the national economy.

Ports are complex transport facilities that connect the three main transportation networks (road, rail, water). Hungary has not developed its port infrastructure since WWII. Without modernisation, ports could not fulfil their role as integrated parts of the transport network. Their management and organisation proved not competitive. These are the reasons why they lack the positive impact on regional economies, pronounced in the case of West-European ports.

Transportation on water consumes far less energy and pollutes much less compared to other modes of transport. External costs borne by the society by transport units is about one-third compared to railway transport and about one-tenth compared to road transport.

By way of offering state of the art port infrastructure and services, the aim of the proposed DILC project is to enable the transfer of cargo volumes to the most economical transportation mode with the least impact on the environment.

The recent major improvements of the road network, especially the construction of motorway M6, and the transport policy adopted by Budapest to orient heavy goods vehicle traffic to peripheral areas outside the M0 orbital motorway, establishes a new location potential for the site. This potential – further enhanced by the possibility for intermodal logistics by connecting to the Danube waterway – can only be utilized by modifying the current zoning to allow the development of DILC. The first step is the rezoning of the site in cooperation with Budapest and District 22. Municipality. In order to realize a state of the art intermodal logistics centre (DILC) government, city and the private sector have to work strategically together. The centre will improve Hungary’s role as a logistics hub in Europe.

The feasibility study for the intermodal logistics centre has been prepared in partnership with the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union and is available for downloading here:

http://www.cbsproperty.hu/en/property/details/6/

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